 | English poetry - 1843 - 368 pages
...swiftness brings, When birds of paradise have lent Their plumage to his wings ? JOHN KEATS. 1796-1821. ODEE TO A NIGHTINGALE. MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness...some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-ward had sunk. "Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...great beauty, the ' Ode to a Nightingale,' may serve as a companion to Shelley's ' Skylark :'— My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-ward had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, ^ But being too happy in thine happiness,... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1846 - 574 pages
...perusal of its mellifluous numbers. Take the following specimen, all we can afford to present : — ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. ' My heart aches, and a drowsy...some dull opiate to the drains, One minute past, and Lethe-ward had sunk; 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 372 pages
...shut of eve In dull November, and their chancel vault, The heaven itself, is blinded throughout night. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE." My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I bad drunk. Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Letbe-wards had sunk. 'Tis... | |
 | John Keats - 1846 - 348 pages
...arbor take A dewy flower, oft would that hand appear, And o'er my eyes the trembling moisture shake. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. MY heart aches, and a drowsy...some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe- wards had sunk : 'T is not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,... | |
 | John Keats - English poetry - 1846 - 340 pages
...arbor take A dewy (lower, oft would that hand appear, And o'er my eyes the trembling moisture shake. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. MY heart aches, and a drowsy...some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe- wards had sunk : MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. 103 'T is not through envy of thy happy lot, But being... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1847 - 606 pages
...perusal of its mellifluous numbers. Take the following specimen, all we can afford to present : — ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. " My heart aches, and a drowsy...some dull opiate to the drains, One minute past, and Lethe-ward had sunk ; 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,... | |
 | John Keats - 1847 - 280 pages
...thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,— That I Inm, light-winged Dryad of the treea, My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...him. No one since Spenser has possessed a more graphic pen. His processions not only live, they move. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. My heart aches, and a drowsy...some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-ward had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,—... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...souls of men Come back, when night her folding veil hath spread, The long remembered dead! HEMANS. THE NIGHTINGALE. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness...some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe- wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,... | |
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Ode to a Nightingale MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk... 
